Bellamy left fit to drop

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Our Correspondent on the striker who is giving his manager another headache

AS IF ATTEMPTING TO BEAT THE other 19 Barclays Premiership clubs were not a difficult enough task, Graeme Souness, the manager of Newcastle United, has another battle on his hands with Craig Bellamy. The Wales forward sat out yesterday’s defeat by Arsenal after walking off the training ground on Thursday and, apparently, feigning a hamstring injury.

Souness, suspecting that the injury was invented because Bellamy did want to play out of position on the right of midfield, is understood to have taken the player to see Freddy Shepherd, the Newcastle chairman, at which point he withdrew his claim to be